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Undertaking family-focused interventions when a parent has a mental illness – possibilities and challenges
- Authors:
- YATES Scott, GATSOU Lina
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 33(2), 2021, pp.103-118.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Parental mental illness (PMI) is a public health issue associated with risks of negative outcomes for children and families. Effective whole family interventions with families with PMI are still not well implemented across mental health, social work and multi-agency workforces. This paper presents research with professionals trained in a new programme, the Think Family-Whole Family Programme, to strengthen family-focused work around PMI. It examines professionals’ practice and understanding of PMI and identifies enablers of effective practice. Findings indicate that professionals having appropriate knowledge of how PMI can affect families and the confidence to address it are important factors enabling effective work with them. They also had concerns around how to discuss mental health due to issues of stigma and management support of whole-family work. Results indicate potential for training to achieve positive outcomes in improving professionals’ knowledge and confidence and encouraging whole-family work around PMI. Possibilities and challenges for future work with families with PMI are discussed. (Edited publisher abstract)
Do maternal and paternal mental illness and substance abuse predict treatment outcomes for children exposed to violence?
- Authors:
- RISSER Heather J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 19(3), 2013, pp.217-220.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This study examined whether having a parent with a mental illness or a parent who abuses substances predicts treatment outcomes for children receiving community-based services for exposure to violence. From 2001 to 2011, data were collected from 492 children from one-and-a-half to seven years old and their primary caregivers enrolled in Safe From the Start services. Results indicated significant improvements pre-intervention to post-intervention in child emotional and behavioural problems, as measured by the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). One-way bivariate analyses indicated that children of mothers or fathers with a mental illness and children of mothers who abused substances had higher CBCL scores at intake. Repeated-measures analyses of variance revealed a main effect such that maternal and paternal mental illness and maternal substance abuse were associated with poorer CBCL scores. The only parental risk factor to moderate the association between treatment and CBCL scores was paternal mental illness. Treatment was associated with greater improvement in CBCL scores for children of fathers with, relative to those without, mental illness, and the effect was due to higher CBCL scores at intake for children of fathers with mental illness rather than lower outcome scores. Results suggest that Safe From the Start services which provide early intervention can be effective in improving children's emotional and behavioural functioning. Additionally, the effectiveness of services appears to be robust to parental risk factors such as mental illness and substance abuse.
Children who care for parents with mental health problems
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.05.08, 2008, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Research summaries on children and parents with mental illness including reports on the findings of a two year study by the Young Carers Research Group.
Children at risk: in the web of parental mental illness
- Authors:
- FELDMAN Ronald A., STIFFMAN Arlene R., JUNG Kenneth G
- Publisher:
- Rutgers University Press
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 299p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- New Brunswick, NJ
A study of children with mentally ill parents and their susceptibility to mental illness.
Building resilience in families under stress: supporting families affected by parental substance misuse and/or mental health problems: a handbook for practitioners
- Author:
- SAWYER Emma
- Publisher:
- National Children's Bureau
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 151p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book explores how professionals can support parenting more effectively in families affected by parental mental illness and substance abuse. It covers context, legislation and policy; the potential impact on children and families; what helps build resilience; professional responses and barriers to effective practice; and how services can support families more effectively at practice and strategic level;
Keeping the family in mind
- Author:
- BARNARDO's
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 3 booklets, DVD
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
In the UK today, one in six adults is living with a mental health problem, most commonly anxiety or depression. Many of these adults are also parents whose children are living at home, in fact mental health problems are more common in adults who have dependent children, and lone parents are three times more likely than other parents to experience mental distress. The emotional wellbeing of parents can have a significant impact on children. In some families, parental distress can lead to children taking on responsibilities that would usually belong to adult family members: they become young carers.
The silent parent: developing knowledge about the experiences of parents with mental illness
- Author:
- BOURSNELL Melanie
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 13(3), July 2007, pp.251-260.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper explores the lived experiences of parents with mental illness in Australia. It draws on in-depth interviews with parents (n=10) who have mental illness and provides an analysis of national mental health policies. The analysis of the parents' narratives is essential in building a picture for those involved in the issues associated with directing and developing services to support parents with mental illness. This paper also provides information for workers who are often faced with a lack of good practice programmes to address the complexities that parents with mental health issues often present. Little is known in this field about the complex needs of families who live with mental illness or recognition of the complex needs of this vulnerable group of families. In fact, there is only recently emerging evidence to indicate an awareness of children in the lives of parents with mental illness. This paper focuses upon lived experience, social process, and social policy across the troubled terrain of mental illness.
Keeping the family in mind: a briefing on young carers whose parents have mental health problems
- Author:
- BARNARDO's
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
In the UK today, one in six adults is living with a mental health problem, most commonly anxiety or depression. Many of these adults are also parents whose children are living at home, in fact mental health problems are more common in adults who have dependent children, and lone parents are three times more likely than other parents to experience mental distress. The emotional wellbeing of parents can have a significant impact on children. In some families, parental distress can lead to children taking on responsibilities that would usually belong to adult family members: they become young carers.
You're not alone...
- Author:
- SANE Australia
- Publisher:
- SANE Australia
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- Melbourne, VIC
This cartoon-based SANE Guide has been written especially for children (6-12-years-old) who have a parent or other person close to them with a mental illness. It explains through a simple picture-story what mental illness is, how it is treated, and how to cope on a day-to-day basis.
Parenting: experiences and feelings of parents with a mental illness
- Author:
- BASSETT Hazel
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 8(6), December 1999, pp.597-604.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Most research in the area of parenting has focused on the psychopathology in the child or the child-parent relationship. Little qualitative research has been carried out in the area of the experiences and feelings of parents with a mental illness. The aim of this Australian study described in this article was to explore that parents' experiences and feelings concerning their role as parents and how the mental illness has impacted on that role. It also examined their perceptions of the mental health service and areas in need of improvement.